Yes, to the OP, I just clicked reply on the last post in the flat view of the thread, sorry!

Cabinet 9 only has around 30 to 40 active phone numbers on it so is small, and the postcodes it serves are spread over a 3km x 2km area so the number that would benefit is actually very small, making the cost per premises helped very high, and thus probably fails any Value For Money tests the SuperfastCymru project is using.

A network rearrangement might help the premises close to the cabinet in the actual Builth Wells for the rest its wait for the Welsh project to push the 96% fibre target even further (expecting around 90% superfast).

NOTE: Not based on anything BT or Superfast Cymru have said but experience in seeing what has happened elsewhere.

Thanks for all the replies. A house move further from the exchange may help lol

Not so much that, just need to ensure that the property you move to actually HAS the service you want available to it, i.e. some areas these can be close to the exchange and in some areas it will be a house 500m from any other that magically has FTTP

The rule - never buy/rent a property where the existing owner does not have the speed of service you want already running.

In reply to a post by johnlilley:

Being such a short distance from the cabinet and exchange it beggars belief I can see it from my window!!

The decision about whether to upgrade a cabinet is usually based on a combination of the ease with which fibre and power can get to the cabinet (and fibre itself doesn't sound onerous in your case) and physically locating the new cabinet *and* how many properties will benefit from the upgrade.

In the case of cab 9, it looks like a lot of the properties served are more than 1.5km from the cabinet, so won't be able to benefit from superfast speeds.

The calculation of "value for money" is done based on the cost per property-benefitting. It sounds like BT and/or SC have determined that the money is better spent elsewhere - and have chosen not to include your cabinet in the programme. Yet...